Warehouses in foreign countries for storage of merchandise in transit or in bond

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Identifikator:: 863514456

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-45340

Document type:: Monograph

Title:: Warehouses in foreign countries for storage of merchandise in transit or in bond

Place of publication:: Washington

Publisher:: Government Printing Office

Year of publication:: 1905

Scope:: 1 Online-Ressource (206 Seiten)

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Europe

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28 WAREHOUSES IN FOREIGN COUNTRIES. to the importers and local manufacturers, who by their use can avoid paying for goods in advance. The scale of charges for storage is as follows: Per nondivisible period of ten days to the third period included, 4 cents per ton. Per nondivisible period of fifteen days to the sixth period included, 7 cents per ton. Per nondivisible period of fifteen days beyond the sixth period, 10 cents per ton. Warehousing rent is due for the whole consignment from the day of entering the first package into the ware house. Any consignment under 1 ton in weight is chargeable as if it were of 1 ton. The rent of every period begun is collected in full. The following classes and quantities of goods were stored in the warehouses in 1903: Wheat, 9,220 tons (all American) ; sugar, 24,000 tons; wool in bales, 15,000 tons (all American, but improted through London) ; straw and hay, 15,000 tons; pitch pine and pine wood, 7,500 tons (1,500 tons pitch pine from America) ; various goods, 2,280 tons. There are no resident Americans here doing business, and all the American goods here were stored by the French consignee. Goods may remain a long time in the warehouses. In 1903 (he average was two months. Goods are cared for and supervised by the chamber of commerce. Admission to the warehouses is forbidden to the public. All nationalities are treated alike. The warehouses are located on the quays of the harbor, where hy draulic cranes, Tom per ley cranes, and jiggers are used for unloading ships. For grain the cost of carriage from the boat to the warehouse, including putting into sacks in the boat’s hold, weighing, carrying, and piling in the warehouses amounts to 30 cents per ton. For wool, unloading and putting into the warehouse costs 28 cents per ton. Certain goods, such as salt, sugar, and coffee, are stored in a spe cial and separate portion of the warehouses, where they remain under the direct supervision of the customs officers; but most goods, such as wheat, lumber, wool, hay, and straw, are admitted to the general warehouse, where the relations with the customs officers consist in making a declaration to them of each entry and delivery of goods. J. B. Milner, Consul. Calais, France, July 1Í), 1.904. DUNKIRK. (Fromi United Staten Consular Agent Morel, Dunkirk, France.) Four warehouses are built at Dunkirk for the storage of merchan dise in transit or in bond, all situated within one inclosure surrounded with walls. Their dimensions are as follows: Stores A and B each have a length of 31.5 meters (103.35 feet) and a width of IO meters (52.49 feet), and have two stories and a cellar. Stores C and I) have the same width ( 10 meters),bu'l are only one story high and 27.5 meters (90.22 feet) and 20.5 meters (80.94 feet) long, respectively. The original cost of the 4 warehouses was 150,000 francs ($28,950). These 4 warehouses constitute the “ Entrepôt Réel des Douanes." and are owned and conducted bv the Chamber of Commerce of Dunkirk in

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